Whether you are just starting to create a digital repository or your institution already has a fully-developed program, Building a Digital Repository Program with Limited Resources provides strategies for building and maintaining a high-use, cohesive, and fiscally responsible repository with collections that showcase your institution.Author Abby Clobridge explains how to strategically select projects tied to your institution’s goals, create processes and workflows designed to support a fully-functioning program, and creatively utilize existing resources. She discuses the benefits of taking a holistic approach to creating a digital repository program rather than focusing exclusively on individual projects. The book includes ready-to-use templates, worksheets, workshop exercises, and assessment tools.
From the reviews:
“Building a Digital Repository Program with Limited Resources should be required reading for anyone working with a digital repository program.” ”Abby Clobridge’s Building a Digital Repository Program with Limited Resources is an excellent primer and handbook for developing and sustaining digital repository programs.” – College & Research Libraries
Chapters include:
- Strategic Planning
- Technical overview
- Staffing
- Metadata
- Collection building: project proposals, planning and implementation
- Content recruitment and marketing
- Open Access
- Sustainability
- Assessment
- Web2.0 and digital repositories
To purchase a copy:
Building a Digital Repository Program with Limited Resources is available from various bookstores including Amazon (U.S.). Review copies & exam copies are available from Neal-Schuman. To purchase from Amazon.FR, click here.
